LITERARY GOTHIC ROMANCE
Kathryn Colvin - About
Kathryn Colvin is a weird novelist and an independent researcher. Her articles on Gothic and strange literature have been published in the peer-reviewed journals Supernatural Studies, Brontë Studies, and Mythlore; she has written and directed several theatrical adaptations and a B-movie, and has intentionally never taken a creative writing class. As an author and a woman, she is culturally expected to tell you her marital status and where she lives, and then to say something cutesy and self-effacing at the end.
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Awards for my writing:
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Winner, Best 2024 Debut, r/FantasyRomance 2024 Readers' Choice Awards: Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London.
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Winner, 2022 Mabel Owen Scholarship, University of Missouri: “‘A Nearness to Tremendousness’: The Power of the Unmoored Mind in Dickinson.”
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Winner, 2022 Hightower English Essay Award, University of Missouri: “The ‘List’ and the Tryst: Absent and Present Forbidden Encounters in Sonnet Form.”
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Second Place, 2022 Frances W. Kerr Award for Excellence in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Drama - Creative Nonfiction Category, University of Missouri: “Milkweed Flower.”
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Winner, 2022 University Libraries Undergraduate Research Contest, University of Missouri: “Hamlet and His Solution: ‘How All Occasions’ as Objective Correlative on Page and Screen.”
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Winner, 2021 Arthur F. and James C. Carson Scholarship, University of Missouri: “A ‘Furnace-Burning Heart’: Shakespeare’s Richard III as Heroic Villain.”
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Winner, 2020 Jacaranda Essay Contest - Literature Category, Long Beach City College: “A ‘Furnace-Burning Heart’: Shakespeare’s Richard III as Heroic Villain.”
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Website designed by moi.
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Website illustration credits:
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Doctor D’Arco book cover and emblem by Ronen Blanquera (www.ronenblanquera.com), 2023.
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Main page: Detail from “They Sat Like That for a Moment in Silence” by André Castaigne, an illustration for the first American edition of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, 1911.
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Contact page: Woodcut by Hermann Freihold Plüddemann (engraving by F. Reusche) from Deutsches Balladenbuch, 1852, illustrating Gottfried August Bürger's 1773 poem “Lenore” (www.oldbookillustrations.com).
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404 page: Woodcut by Horace Castelli (engraving by Narcisse Navellier) from Les mystères de la science by Louis Figuier, ca. 1880 (www.oldbookillustrations.com).
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